Alliance for Mystical Pragmatics

Alliance for Mystical Pragmatics

Harmonizing Evolutionary Convergence

Glossary Menus

nem-

PIE base ‘to assign, allot; take’.

Other derivatives include number, enumerate, astronomy, nemesis, nimble, numb, and nomad.

[Pokorny *nem-1, pp. 763–764.]

taxonomy

taxonomy of speciesTaxonomy is the science, laws, or principles of classification, as an ordered arrangement of groups or categories, lying at the heart of human reason. A. P. de Candolle coined taxonomy in French in 1813 to denote the classification of the biological species that Carl Linnaeus had introduced in Systema Naturæ, naming the human race Homo sapiens ‘wise human’ in the tenth edition in 1758.